Chapter 132 Yade class in Chongqing

Flights from Kunming to Chongqing are usually booked a month in advance, and Dai Li's agents arranged seats for the two on a high-octane-fueled plane piloted by an American pilot and flew to Chongqing, the capital of the wartime Kuomintang-controlled area.In Chongqing, he met up with Dai Li's other secret agents, and then Yadelei and Ling drove along a narrow road lined with rickshaws, through the west gate of the city, and came to a four-story building overlooking the In front of the unit building of "Xiaohe" which represents the northern boundary of the city.Yard lived in a suite on the third floor of the building with a living room, office, and a full Western-style toilet and bathroom.But this is only a temporary residence. In December 1938, Yardley moved into a tile-roofed mansion built with stones stolen from the ruins of the temple.

To get to the mansion, one had to walk half a mile through a foul-smelling bamboo slum by a narrow, muddy path that branched off from the riverside road.At the end, climb up the steps again, leading to a stone arch with lions, to a dilapidated Buddhist temple, and then a stone wall with wooden gates locked horizontally with wooden stakes.There are Chinese characters written on the door, which means Happy House.You pull a rope to ring the bell, and a Chinese guard peeps through the door and removes the stake.Now you climb the steps again to a stone-walled garden with stone tea tables shaded by palm trees and fenced in.Then pass through a spring, and the archway on the water says "Secret Spring".Then, after climbing 40 steps, I came to the entrance of the mansion.

Yade was told that this mansion originally belonged to the mayor of Chongqing, "he was mysteriously squeezed out shortly before I arrived."The mansion sits commandingly high, overlooking the Yangtze River and the airfield where the Yards land, and is just a few hundred yards from the German, French and British embassies.Commonly known as the "Shenxian Cave", there is a cave cut out of the rock below the mansion, where monks are said to have hid their young girls in ancient times.Now it is an anti-aircraft shelter. The house consists of 20 rooms with pine floors and poor furniture.There are no bathrooms, electric stoves or fireplaces, just a charcoal stove in the basement for cooking.Yade's bedroom is on the top floor on the east side of the house, the lights inside are dim, and fat Sichuan rats are infesting everywhere.

Only a few days ago a rat killed the newborn baby of one of our guards.The mother was caught off guard when the rat tore off one of the child's testicles.Despite the various traps set up at my insistence, the rats roamed about in the attic, and there wasn't a single night when I wasn't woken up by a rat or two that came upon me.Although I have had all the holes in the place where I live plugged up, there are still openings that I cannot discover. Time seems to have stood still for Yard class.Surrounded by “an army of guards and servants,” Yade tried his best to spend a few hours a day on the cipher throughout December, but he was mainly waiting for a group of students from Changsha to fully begin the deciphering project.

During this interval, Yard tried his best to interest the military liaison officers in the use of scopolamine and isobarbital as "true serum", but to no avail.Although these items passed the inspection of Northwestern University's Criminal Detection Bureau, they are still illegal supplies in the United States.He had better luck with Dai Li's deputy, General Zeng.Once fascinated by the demonstration of Yade's burning pens, he ordered the chemists to produce these things in a workshop in a remote corner of the Chongqing mansion garden. Although Wuhan fell and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River got out of control, this "Chinese black room" flourished greatly.The reconnaissance station led by Wen Yuqing moved westward from Changsha to Guilin and Guiyang, and finally to Kunming.Wei Daming continued to send military commanders to participate in the work of reconnaissance radio stations, but he transferred a group of 30 students from Qiu Chenjun's subordinates, and together with Yade and class, went to the "secret station" set up in the Immortal Cave that hosted the American cryptographer. Interpretation training class" work.

Naturally, there are some other important cryptographic units at the same time.The training class of the original Hangzhou Police Academy was transferred to Wuchang after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. After the fall of Wuhan, it was merged with the Linli training class.An independent training class in Wuhan was established with the support of the senior command, with 100 trainees in each class.Its graduates are either assigned to military cipher stations or assigned to other regional stations. In 1940, the training unit was transferred to Zunyi, where it worked under the leadership of Wei Daming.In addition, Jinhua in central Zhejiang has also established two important communication institutions to train radio and cipher personnel from Dai Li's hometown Jiangshan.These fellow villagers from Jiangshan speak a dialect that is almost completely incomprehensible. They are programmed into the cipher department led by cryptography expert Zhu Limin, or into the "translator training class" taught by Mao Wanli, and then assigned Worked as a code clerk in the military command telecommunications office, or worked in an "independent radio station" behind enemy lines.These radio operators and cryptographers usually sent their information directly to Chungking without contact with personnel from other bureaus in the bank.

Regardless, the Yard class continued to expand throughout 1939.More than 200 cadets were trained that year, and the black room in Chongqing intercepted more than 20 million secret radio and telegraph communications sent to the Japanese army.About 20,000 of these were specifically researched and valued.The biggest breakthrough came at the end of 1939, when Yard and Wei Daming deciphered the code of the Japanese Air Force and provided the fledgling Chinese Air Force and Chennault's Flying Tigers with information on a major Japanese air raid. In the face of these achievements, Yade class feels that he has not received the appreciation he deserves, and his salary is too low.He began to miss home, and drank heavily at times, at times not at all.He began to think of ways to earn money, planning to either send it to America or pay Edna Ranthea directly.At the same time, Colonel David Bairuite, the US deputy military attache stationed in Chongqing, learned the gossip about the activities of the Yad class in the wartime capital.Colonel E. R. W. McBaugh, head of War Department G-2, confirmed the news, but warned Baird to be cautious when approaching the Yards, as the army had established a secret reconnaissance unit to come Decipher Japanese military and diplomatic codes.And Yade was equally cautious, because Dai Li warned him not to partner with foreigners or Chinese outside his headquarters.

The first meeting between Bai Ruite and Yard was on February 22, 1940.Yadelei told the American military attache that he was going to stay in China and that he was likely to be sent to lead a new national Chinese black room.He also talked about the possibility of secretly providing Japanese military developments to the US War Department.After obtaining cautious approval from Colonel Mike Burrett, Barrett met with Yardley again on March 8.Yade class promised to provide all the technical information on deciphering the Japanese code in exchange for an annual remuneration of 6,000 U.S. dollars to pay to Edna Ranthea, who kept 2,000 U.S. dollars for herself, and then handed over the rest to Yade class .

Although Yade gave another American military attache, Major William Maye, a memo he had written to Dai Li listing 19 Japanese ciphers, the War Department rejected the expatriate cryptographer's proposal.At that time, U.S. intelligence officials had confirmed, and later confirmed, that Dai Li knew about these secret meetings.In fact, Major Ma Ye was invited by Dai Li himself to discuss the work of Yade and others.Major Ma Ye was surprised when Dai Li himself proposed to provide the results of deciphering the code to the United States.But in June 1940, before further cooperation in this regard began, Yade expressed his desire to leave China.With his failing health and frustration over the destruction of his collection of London gin in a Japanese air raid, Yard decided to return home.Yade, who had lost 40 pounds and suffered from lack of sleep due to air raids, left Chongqing on July 13. He did not expect that the US Signal Intelligence Agency had already begun to make a breakthrough in translating Japan's most secret diplomatic code "Purple Code", and Dai Li had also begun to implement his plan to gather communications intelligence in one office, and the Yade class was of little use in this new organization.

Yard returned to Washington, reunited with Edna Ranthea, and after a temporary stint with the Signals Department, joined the Canadian Watch as a cryptanalyst.He didn't stay there long, then returned to Washington, opened a French restaurant called "Le Rideau" on the corner between 13th and H streets, and then worked as a director of the Price Administration. A rationing executive. In 1945, he co-wrote a novel "Crows Are Black Everywhere" (Crows Are Black Everywhere), which is about the adventures of a female reporter in Chongqing. Twelve years later, another bestseller called The Education of a Poker Player came out.He died on August 7, 1958, and was buried as an honorary soldier at Ellington National Cemetery.

Yade brought cryptography to Dai Li, but despite his brilliance, he was unable to provide the military command with the advanced equipment and comprehensive technology possessed by communication experts trained in Europe and America.Dai Li's efforts to defeat his opponents in the Chinese intelligence community by establishing a special military black room failed temporarily.